We have a chief of state put and maintained in power by a foreign army but who after four years of trying has been unable to assemble a political base. Anti-Préval demonstrations spreading to the major cities reveal the masses’ total rejection of his rul

The state department report quotes frequent allegations that “members of the government and the Haiti National Police, most notably the Presidential Security Unit and the Palace Guard, were actively involved in drug trafficking”.

Who killed Director-General Jeanty? You can no longer tell the real police from the attaches. Chief Faveur refused to promote him, yet he rose rapidly from the palace guard. Where were his bodyguards? What was he doing with $285,000 in cash?